My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country.
— Tim Roth
I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person.
I'd seen musicians act, and it scares me. And they make more money than me.
Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.
Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy.
I'm a workaholic.
I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.
I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.
If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in.
I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions.
I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen.
How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.
You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.
I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.
I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.
There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.
I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right.
Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.
Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.
When you know youre whoring it hurts. I have kids. I'm not going to run down an actor for doing this.
Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.
Bring back dueling, I say. Drive-by sword fight.
A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.
I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.
The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned.
There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.
